"A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new."
- Marshall McLuhan
"You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity and this is one of our marvellous resources."
"One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour."
"It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness."
"Money is the poor people's credit card."
"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist."
"Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation violence is the natural recourse."
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."