The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

If the vision is there, the means will follow.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.