Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

The story begins only when the book closes.