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

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

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.

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