The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.

The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.

It is all falling indelibly into the past.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.