Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life, and life hath immortality

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Goodbye” is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say “no” to what always keeps you static!

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.