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

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

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

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from others. People who disagree have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree and both may count themselves in the majority. But a person who dissents is by definition in a minority. A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the life blood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.