We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

American Rifleman and Field & Stream had ads for "varmint guns." Another varmint was a ground hog because a horse would be going along and he'd stick his foot in a ground hog hole and break his leg. So we were trying to prevent that, too. But we finally scared ourselves. We didn't realize we were nuts.