The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.

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

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

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

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

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.