What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

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.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

It's never too late to come home, " he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

I'm always changing and learning about acting, and about myself. I just hope to always keep doing that.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.