All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.