Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.