The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

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

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

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

At electric speed, all forms are pushed to the limits of their potential.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.