While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

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

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.