We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.