An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.