It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

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.

If I have nothing but a room full of books, it is enough for me to survive life.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The old law permitted abortion to save one life when two would otherwise die. The new law permits abortion to take one life when two would otherwise live.

Her voice left a flavor of honey and gunpowder on the air.

The mainstream is generally garbage. Look at the heavily subsidized theaters.