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.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

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

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

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.