Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

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

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

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.