on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

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

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

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

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

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