The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

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

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.