The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal.

The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is.

The images of mankind have become the most basic thing about them. And they're all software, and disembodied.

I am a pattern watcher.

Great ages of innovation are the ages in which entire cultures are junked or scrapped.

Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order.

Dialectic functions by converting everything it touches into figure but metaphor is a means of perceiving one thing in terms of another.

Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.

Language is a sense, like touch.

There is no connection between the elements in an electric world, which is equivalent to being surrounded by the human unconscious.