Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

Pursue not the outer entanglements

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.