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.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff.

It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"

Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.