The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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.

People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.

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Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

I try to think of something catchy to say, but there's nothing but irritation that something that was funny yo an eleven-year-old boy is still funny to a seventeen-year-old one.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I was a precocious child.

I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.