The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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.

Motivation revives the soul.

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.

Be yourself, be who you can be.

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

I write to breathe life back into memory.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.