The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Life is the result of all your choices.