Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

The content or message of any particular medium has about as much importance as the stenciling on the casing of an atomic bomb.

Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Language is a form of organized stutter.