If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

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

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.