To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.