In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

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 essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.

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

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

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.