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

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

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

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

The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.