Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

That all men are alike is exactly what society would like to hear. It considers actual or imagined differences as stigmas indicating that not enough has yet been done; that something has still been left outside its machinery, not quite determined by its totality.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.