If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation
Norman CousinsWhat a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.
Norman CousinsThe library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins