The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis.

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

The story begins only when the book closes.

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.