The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

... Their power to see environments as they really are.