From McLuhan's “Letter to Clare Westcott (26 November 1975)”

It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet. Kafka says — one very small line lost in his writing — “to the depths, to the depths.””

— Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

From Lem's Tales of Pirx the Pilot

We do reach those agreements in countless ways with other people every single day. If we didn't it would be impossible for our society to function. It's just that those agreements are so obvious to us that we naturally take the whole process of agreeing for granted.

(I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.”

— Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes