[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by how widely and how well it is reproduced?

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.