“Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.”

“Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.”

“Is it by chance that the 18th century of France, the century of the "philosophy of enlightenment," did not produce any poets except the Marquis de Sade, who -- despite his participation in the events of this epoch -- expressed the first violent protest against the essential postulates of this period?”

“The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.”

“Realism: A post dadaist yearning for the ontological validation of domestic miseries and bygone centuries.”

“Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.”