Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Only the vanquished remember history.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness [all-at-once-ness]. 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening. ... The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The real news is bad news.