Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

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

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.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.