Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

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.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.