Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

He who is not proud of his own blood is not worthy of it.

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

I can't tell you how excited I am to be a part of an organization that's committed to winning.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.

The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.

Belief is only the beginning.

Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.