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I feel betrayed by own mother.
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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When something important is going on, silence is a lie.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
