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

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

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