People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.

We live in the world when we love it.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.