Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions