We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.