I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

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

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

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.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.