“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”

“Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.”

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

“The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep.”

“Byproduct of the circulation of commodities, human circulation considered as a form of consumption, tourism comes down fundamentally to the freedom to go and see what has become banal. The economic planning of the frequenting of different places is already in itself the guarantee of their equivalence. The same modernization that has withdrawn the element of time from journeying, has also withdrawn the reality of space.”

“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.”