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.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

All advertising advertises advertising.

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.