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!'

The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.