“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

“I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.”