We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. – E. O. Wilson
In anything Ive ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I dont think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didnt sound like them at all. – Kevin Smith
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? – John W. Foster