“All media work us over completely.”
“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”
“Maybe it is the media that has us divided.”
“Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson.”
“Media work needs ideals. Maybe thirty years from now, after I retire, I'll see the media mature and make the transition from political party, interest group, and corporate to truly public. But over the next ten years, the encroachment of commercialism and worldliness will loom much larger than the democratization we imagine. -Jin Yongquan in China Ink”
“We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.”