Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for... lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and "retro" clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what h...e has seen in Hong-Kong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you are ...a red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear.... Why in a few months it'll be up in lights on Broadway: Kong, the ...Eighth Wonder of the World.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New Yo...rk is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. 'Tis a disease that, lik...e influenza, falls on all constitutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had ...the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness--not crimes and scandals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »