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

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

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

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.

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