Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.