More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

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

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

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