"We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God." - Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image

"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons..." - Alfred E. Newman

"A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'" - Charles Dudley Warner

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff

"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love

"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." - R.D. LAING, The Politics of Experience

"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation." - NORMAN MAILER, Of a Fire on the Moon

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. WELLS, The Outline of History