Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

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.

At some point you have to stop crossing oceans for those who wouldn't jump puddles for you.

Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.