Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

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

the only people who have proof of their sanity are those who have been discharged from mental institutions

The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

Information and images bump against each other every day in massive quantities, and the resonance of this interfacing is like the babble of a village or tavern gossip session.

With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.