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

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

The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.