The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to find out what is going on.

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.