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

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.