"Celebrities have an intimate life and a life in the grid of two hundred million. For them, there is no distance betwe…"

"The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, …"

"Soon it will be achieved. The lie of television has been that there are contexts to which television will grant an ac…"

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

"Each one of these social generations—from the ‘50s, from the ‘60s, from the ‘70s, from the Reagan era, from now—think…"

"The 1960s weren’t the 1920s again; they were the Liberal Arts expressed in the negative. The 1970s, despite the hedon…"

"World War II changed the demography. For a while, high seriousness was a part (only a part) of the mix. No one likes …"

"Your parents had a third parent—television. If you went back to 1950, you would be surprised. Many people—of all kind…"

"...my friend Dr. Arno Gruen, author of The Insanity of Normality, has said an interesting thing. He said that culture…"

"Wonder was the grace of the country."