I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

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

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

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

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Never have people been more the masters of their environment. Yet never has a people felt more deceived and disappointed. For never has a people expected so much more than the world could offer.