As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

Revel in grossness. Leave food in your teeth. Proudly display feminine hygiene products.

Mind makes a man of God.

How does one say something new and not retell?

You have to really believe that you can move mountains.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.