I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.