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

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

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!

Historians will not fail to note that a people who could spend $300 billion on defense refused to spend a tiny fraction of that total to keep their libraries open in the evening.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

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