Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

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.)

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

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

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.