"First we build the tools, then they build us."
- Marshall McLuhan
"if it works it's obsolete"
"The present is only faced in any generation by the artist."
"To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine."
"I satirize at all times, and my hyperboles are as nothing compared to the events to which they refer."
"At every turn, while he was investigating the background for his study of Thomas Nashe, he would encounter the Church — what Chesterton called (another book title) The Thing. It was everywhere. At one..."
"I never came into the church as a person who was being taught. I came in on my knees. That is the only way in. When people start praying they need truths; that’s all. You don’t come into the Church by..."
"The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light."
"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."
"All media work us over completely."