Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

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.

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.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

You can't go by what a girl says, when she's giving you the devil for making a chump of yourself. It's like Shakespeare. Sounds well, but doesn't mean anything.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.