The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

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.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.

Climax: It's all downhill from here.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

You'll see some great performances [in Fences]. And I'm not just saying that because I directed it either! You'll see!

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.