I neither approve nor disapprove. I merely try to understand. Sexual freedom is as natural to newly tribalized youth as drugs. - Marshall McLuhan

I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer.

Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.

"There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because they sample the complex dimensions and flavors of words and phrases. They strive for totality not lineality. They are well aware that the words on the page have to be decanted with the utmost skill. Those who imagine they read only for "content" are illusioned."