"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius."
Sir Edward Gibbon

'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude." -- from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Conduct of Life"

Neil Postman

So idolatry has triumphed. I think Luther would join Moses in saying that the cult of the word is defenseless in the face of the image.

Camille Paglia

The twentieth century is not the Age of Anxiety but the Age of Hollywood. The pagan cult of personality has reawakened and dominates all art, all thought. It is morally empty but ritually profound..... Movie screen and television screen are its sacred precincts.

The Adult Child

I have been trying to determine for some time if adults are acting more childlike or are children acting more adult like; I have come to the conclusion that adults and children have met in the middle to form a new sociological group of the Adult-Child. This group contains elements of the traditional catagories of adult and child but both have compromised to reach a disturbing middle ground that has not been seen in western culture since the dark ages.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.