This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

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.

I had heard the wind from the mountains calling me last night, telling me it was my time to go, and I woke up, knowing what to do.

Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!