Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity

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

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.