Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Jokes are grievances.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.