The family circle has widened. The worldpool of information fathered by the electric media--movies, Telstar, flight--far surpassesany possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear. Character no longer is shaped by only two earnest, fumbling experts. Now all the world's a sage.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...

As a rule, I always look for what others ignore.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

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

The story begins only when the book closes.