By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

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!'

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

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

But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.