It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.