"Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands." — Daniel J. Boorstin

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.