Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

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

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.