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.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

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

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

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.