Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

My best advice is to be yourself. Unless you’re psychotic, then you might want to try a different tactic.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

People always say, 'A good man is hard to find.' You've never heard that about women, have you?

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring.