“Living abroad facilitates treating life as a spectacle.”

“Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.”

“When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.”

“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.”

“A major challenge we face today, therefore, is to create a desire in people to learn; and to foster and facilitate this desire throughout their lives.”

“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.”