“...the age of surveillance is only a symptom of the new hyper-narcissism that has infected our collective reality tunnels. We invite the surveillance cameras into our homes because they are proof that someone is paying attention to us.”

“The more attention we pay to the idea that reality shifts, the more we see our reality shift”

“Do you have someone watching her house?” (Stephanie)“That kind of surveillance only happens in the movies. We’re so underbudgeted we’re one step away fromholding bake sales to pay for toilet paper. (Morelli)”

“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”

“We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said”

“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function, preserving the sacrosanct space of inner thought that is our birthright. Assaults on that birthright in the forms of legislation, surveillance, and censorship ultimately are precisely as dangerous as our acquiescence in them.”