The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

To walk is to lack a place.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.