Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.

The more silent you are at bed during times of crisis, the more are the chances of an amicable, dignified and a not so counterproductive interchange of romantic exuberance.

Sometimes, sleepers turn up as common people who do everyday things, and create a new destiny for themselves when nobody’s watching.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

we ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

When a person is dispossessed of his land, there is a reaction and you have to deal with the reaction properly. You just can't deal with the reaction by giving him money.

Never promise more than you can perform.