fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.

performance is an act of faith.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

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