It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.