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

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.

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.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection in such an average day?Then I realized that was the whole point.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.