“I write to discover what I think”

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

“When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.”

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

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