To travel is to shop.

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view 'realistically'; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent – war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrifice is excessive.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.