We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.