Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.