While Knowledge Is Orderly And Cumulative, Information

What Preoccupies Us, Then, Is Not God As A Fact Of Nature, But As A Fabrication Useful For A God-fearing Society. God Himself Becomes Not A Power But An Image.

The Hero Created Himself; The Celebrity Is Created By The Media.

God Is The Celebrity Author Of The World's Best Seller. We Have Made God Into The Biggest Celebrity Of All, To Contain Our Own Emptiness.

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

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.