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

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.