Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.