We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

Certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.