“chapter 'Caption', p. 84”

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”

“I know how to tell a story, but there’s a deeper thing I’m trying to get to now that can’t be expressed with a caption.”

“The end of the chapter is the beginning of the new chapter.”

“Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.”

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”

“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”

“Correct me if I'm wrong here, but truth is something that arises out of the relationship between language and the world. If I look at a picture alone, it tells me nothing. In the previous incarnation of this lecture, I was going to put a picture of the Titanic and the Lusitania up on the screen. They look very, very similar - four smokestacks. They look almost identical. You look at either picture, true or false? Neither. Put a caption at the bottom of one of them, that changes everything. If you put in the caption, "This is the Lusitania," and the picture is a picture of the Lusitania, then the caption is true. However, the picture itself is neither true nor false. It's just a picture.”

“If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.”

“2. Proposition. The Seven Trumpets of the 8. and 9. chapters, and the Seven Vials of the 16. Chapter, are all one.”