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.

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

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

All societies end up wearing masks.

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

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.