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.

It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it

The story begins only when the book closes.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.