"The experience that we have of our lives from within, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to account for what we are doing, is fundamentally a lie – the truth lies outside, in what we…"

"I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology."

"The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on."

"I often say, 'I'm a communist, but I drive a Mercedes.' It's not a joke, it's a statement about our predicament."

"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do."