Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

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.