Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

- Milton Mayer

The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and …

- Milton Mayer

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even…

- Milton Mayer

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,' which the Nazi…

- Milton Mayer

I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

- Milton Mayer

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

- Milton Mayer

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

- Milton Mayer