On ne peut opposer absraitement le spectacle et l'activité sociale effective.

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.

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.

... the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

Close your eyes and stare into the dark.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.