Scott McCloud Quotes

Communication is important.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

The exchanges of commerce demand stated, reliable, and rapid means of communication.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

I've stood in a place to always be a bridge between different people and bring together people for the common cause of Christ.

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

I think that's the most important thing: that we create dialogue.

Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

Communication is the universal solvent.