reality
Who owns the words? Who owns the music and the rest of our culture? We do—all of us—though not all of us know it yet. Reality cannot be copyrighted.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 209.
The stupidity and blindness of American power, which, in its own terms is perfectly “logical”—and yet its terms are fantastically arbitrary and respond only to the “reality” of a thinking that goes on within an artificial and closed system. To defend your own reality and then impose it forcefully on the outside world is paranoia.
October 25, 1967 journal entry in The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 5.
I do think that socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, September 30, 2010.