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

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

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

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

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera - and himself.