More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

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

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.