Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.