Daniel J. BoorstinThinkers

A Bestseller is a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Bestseller is a book which somehow sells well because it is selling well.

The Book is a messenger of freedom which can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

The City is, in America, rare in that -- in contrast to other world cities which were sites of palaces, cathedrals, libraries, archives, and great monuments of all kinds -- it represents a dynamic urban environment where almost nothing had been pre-empted by history.

Crime is that world existing as the last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Crime is the last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

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

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is it hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

God is the celebrity-author of the world's bestseller who we have made into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

God is the Celebrity-Author of the World's Best-Seller.

Public relations is effective — some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Reading is like the sex act done privately, and often in bed.