“It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.”

“A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped.”

“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)”

“The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.”

“This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.”

“I'm returning to England because the reason I stayed away no longer exists, and a reason to return has unexpectedly presented itself.”