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

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

Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

There is no disinfectant like success.

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