Canned Music Is Like Audible Wallpaper.

In The Best Of Times, Our Days Are Numbered Anyway. So It Would Be A Crime Against Nature For Any Generation To Take The World Crisis So Solemnly That It Put Off Enjoying Those Things For Which We Were Designed In The First Place: The Opportunity To Do Good Work, To Enjoy Friends, To Fall In Love, To Hit A Ball, And To Bounce A Baby.

America Is A Country In Which I See The Most Persistant Idealism And The Blandest Of Cynicism And The Race Is On Between Its Vitality And Its Decadence.

Hollywood Grew To Be The Most Flourishing Factory Of Popular Mythology Since The Greeks.

Although The Jeffersonian Law ("all Men Are Created Equal") Is The First Article Of The American Faith, The Facts Of American Life Have Demonstrated For Some Time Now That It Is An Irksome Faith To Live By.

To Watch An American On A Beach, Or Crowding Into A Subway, Or Buying A Theatre Ticket, Or Sitting At Home With His Radio On, Tells You Something About One Aspect Of The American Character: The Capacity To Withstand A Great Deal Of Outside Interference, So To Speak; A Willing Acceptance Of Frenzy Which, Though It's Never Self-conscious, Amounts To A Willingness To Let Other People Have And Assert Their Own Lively, And Even Offensive, Character. They Are A Tough Race In This.