“We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor.”
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”
“The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.”
“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?”