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

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

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

Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

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