Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

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.

Philosophy is the music of a judgmental mind and imaginative heart.

Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".

Destroy the old files, but make copies first.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.