The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

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

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

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

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

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.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.