The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness.

Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs.

Food for the mind is like food for the body: the inputs are never the same as the outputs.