The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

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.

Too often in ironing out trouble someone gets scorched.

God gave me you for the ups and downs and days of doubts.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

Some of these people make my skin crawl.

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.