Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

To the militant, identity is everything.

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.