What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

Happiness isn’t about pretending there’s no pain. It’s about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

The world isn't what you think it is.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

I'm the only honest person in Washington.

If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?