The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Photography is painting with light

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

You plus God equals enough.