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

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

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

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

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.