This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.