Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

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.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.