Knowledge Is Not Simply Another Commodity. On

An Image Is Not Simply A Trademark, A Design, A Slogan Or An Easily Remembered Picture. It Is A Studiously Crafted Personality Profile Of An Individual, Institution, Corporation, Product Or Service.

We Must Abandon The Prevalent Belief In The Superior Wisdom Of The Ignorant.

But Rather That We Should Lose Our Sense That Neither Can Become The Other, That The Traditional Novel Form Continues To Enlarge Our Experience In Those Very Areas Where The Wide-angle Lense And The Cinerama Screen Tend To Narrow It.

Books Are Messengers Of Freedom. They Can Be Hidden Under A Mattress Or Smuggled Into Slave Nations.

Beware Of Charisma . . . Representative Men; Was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 Phrase For The Great Men In A Democracy . . . Is There Some Common Quality Among These Representative Men Who Have Been Most Successful As Our Leaders? I Call It The Need To Be Authentic-or, As Our Dictionaries Tell Us, Conforming To Fact And Therefore Worthy Of Trust, Reliance Or Belief. While The Charismatic Has An Uncanny Outside Source Of Strength, The Authentic Is Strong Because He Is What He Seems To Be.