Maxim de Winter: Tell me, is Mrs. Van hopper a friend of yours or just a relation?
Mrs. de Winter: No, she’s my employer. I’m what’s known as a paid companion.
Maxim de Winter: I didn’t know that companionship could be bought.
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)