Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

The author is still dead, folks!!

Doorman: Good morning Mr. PeaknisMr. P.: Go to hell

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.