Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

If it works, it's obsolete.

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.