History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

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.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

Smile and others will smile back.

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.