Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.