“Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.”

“Meanwhile, news has been leaked to the press that the Hero of Drummond Street will be pictured on the cover of a national magazine, nude.”

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”

“Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.”

“To see the futurity of the species has always been the privilege of the intellectual elite, or of those who have learnt from them; to have the feelings of that futurity has been the distinction, and usually the martyrdom, of a still rare elite. Institutions, books, education, society, all go on training human beings for the old, long after the new has come; much more when it is only coming.”

“The word ‘color’ means at its origin to ‘cover’ or ‘hide.’ Matter eats up light and ‘covers’ it with a confusion of color.”