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

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

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

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.