The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week

The trouble with us in America isn,t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy