All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

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

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

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

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