For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. - Werner Herzog

It is my firm belief, and I say this as a dictum, that all these tools now at our disposal, these things part of this explosive evolution of means of communication, mean we are now heading for an era of solitude. Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal— be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever— human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

One solitary, overriding thought: get away from here. People frighten me.