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

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.