“A utopia is an ideally perfect place. Who's ideas are we going by?”
“Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.”
“When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.”
“A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the ‘utopia’ we are living in is boring.”
“I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.”
“Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.”