One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.