I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

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

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

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

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.