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.

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

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.