“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

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

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

“When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, ...”

“The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“People don't always need a name.”

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”