I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

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.

The way communication works is changing.

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.