Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge

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 tortur

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one