Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

The story begins only when the book closes.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

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

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