Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.