Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Mass entertainment in America has been dominated for a long time by the mode of documentary realism.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.