The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

North Americans have a peculiar bias. They go outside to be alone and they go home to be social.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.

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

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.