“Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?”

“We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us”

“Yes, we gave her drugs - we wanted to free her from those sinister clinics up in the hills, from those men in white coats who know best. Bibi needed to soar over our heads, dreaming her amphetamine dreams, coming off the beach in the evening and leading everyone into the cocaine night.”

“The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.”

“Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.”

“A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.”

“Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.”