To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.