Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.