“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth”

“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”

“It is much more a lack of fun which batters us than over abundance and indulgence”

“O trabalho foi aquilo que o homem achou de melhor para nada fazer da sua vida.”

“To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.”

“Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?”