[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.

We impose the form of the old on the content of the new.

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.

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