Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the political sense of the people, could be viewed as a conspiracy to disguise the extent of political indifference.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

If you want to get out of medicine the fullest enjoyment, be students all your lives.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

There are more important things than being careful

Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.

My dad is an egomaniac.

On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

No amount of promises can guarantee love

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

Treat 'em like a prostitute, don't treat 'em well until your sure of the scoop.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.