Culture is that which, for the average person, appears to be remote, hovers over, and humiliates him.

Culture is that upon whose reflection we obtain a larger reservoir of ways of knowing.

Culture is tasked, as its primary function, to harness and control energy.

A Culture is not a scientific object. It is produced historically and is actively contested.

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Fashion is always about sex — it is not what you wear, it is how you take it off

Fashion is important — A bird is known by its feathers.

Fashion is not about clothing alone — we are taught to clothe our minds, as we do our bodies, after the fashion in vogue; and it is accounted fantastical, or something worse, not to do so.

Influence is inherent in everything — Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Influence is important to character — Amongst the honorable a man becomes honorable ; amongst the base, base.

Influence is most successful when grounded in kindness — you cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Influence is a kind of immortality — a man lives as long as there are those who bear the stamp of his influence.

Information is always easy to exploit — the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Information is counterproductive when it is excessive — a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Information uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

Information is worthless if it is not accessible — information that is hard to access is worth less than none at all.