“[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.”
“They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. he problem with being humas isn't really so temporary”
“Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
“He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.”
“To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to be consumed, to be taken up into participation in something larger than the self, yet in a way in which the identity of the self is paradoxically secured.”