After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.