He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.

In art, there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.