A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future

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

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.

The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the press and media. Celebrities are people who make news, but heroes are people who make history. Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?