Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

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

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

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.