Le spectacle est la principale production de la société actuelle.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

Rosalind exploded with a shriek worthy of a tea-kettle.

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.