Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.

Genius is childhood recaptured.