Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

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.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.