Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

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

There is no disinfectant like success.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

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.