Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

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.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

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

On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.