An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

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

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves.

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.

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.