The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

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

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.