Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

It is not a fragrant world.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.