The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.