“The car, is the other connection to the outside world, but to be precise it connects the inhabitants to the inside of the car, not to the outside world per se. The outside world is only an element for moving through, as submarines move through water.”

“There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.”

“My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.”

“Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.”

“I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities. ”

“The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television if the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.”