Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers