It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making