It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Victor Aubrey Lownes III was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc. from 1955 through the early 1980s. Soon after meeting Hugh Hefner in 1954, Hefner started Playboy Magazine.
