"Rituals, ceremonies, raiments, masks, designs, mutilations and torture - all in order to seduce... the gods, the spirits, or the dead." - Seduction

"Warhol never tires himself." - The Perfect Crime

"Chance in its modern, rational sense, chance as an aleatory mechanism, pure probability subjected to the laws of probability (and not to the rules of a game) - a sort of Great Neutral Aleatorium (G.N.A." - Seduction

"This is a symbolic law - which is, moreover, not a law but an unavoidable rule, that is, we adhere to it without grounds, as something arbitrary yet obvious, and not in accord with some transcendent principle." - Seduction

"Which would break with the specular nature of the sign and the encoumbrance of the referent?" - Seduction

"Admittedly this was a spiritual heresy, but it was an enthralling hypothesis." - The Perfect Crime

"In the process, a residue is left over which is not dealt with because it cannot be, and naturally this becomes transformed into hatred." - The Perfect Crime

"Disappearance of anti-particles in favour of simple particles, without anti-matter." - The Perfect Crime

"There is not even a reign of the "human" in primitive societies, and for a long time the animal order has been the order of reference." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Here, however, it is this very definition of the sexual that is eclipsed." - Seduction

"Seduction does not only revolve around the fundamental rule -- it IS the fundamental rule, and it exists only by virtue of never being uttered." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"They each `lock on to' the other in an attempt to misappropriate its distinctive signs." - The Perfect Crime

"In itself it is nul, seduction has no power of its own, only that of annuling the power of production." - Seduction

"The sterility of idols is well-known: they do not reproduce, but rise from the ashes, like the phoenix, or from their mirror, like the seductress." - Seduction

"Behind the condescending interest there always lurks the voracious countenance of the vampire." - The Perfect Crime

"Brahma then spoke to his daughter: "Let us give birth to all kinds of animated creatures, to men, suras and asuras."" - The Ecstasy of Communication

"One must take into account that cancerous proliferation is also a silent disobedience of the injunctions of the genetic code." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Advertising is its new version is the effect of the omnipresent visibility of corporations, trade marks, PR men, social dialogue and the virtues of communication." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"In fact, the game has reached its end, butt the seducer reaches new heights of irony by bringing together all the threads he has woven since the beginning in one last display of fireworks, which is, at the same time, a parodic funeral oration to." - Seduction

"The immediate totting up, itemizing and storing of all these exchanges, precisely as occurs with writing on word-processors, bespeaks an interactive compulsion which respects neither the timing nor the rhythm (not to mention the pleasure) of exchange, and combines artificial..." - The Perfect Crime

"Everything which stood in a fixed relation of opposition is losing its meaning by becoming indistinguishable from its opposite as a result of the upsurge of a reality which is absorbing all differences and conflating opposing terms by promoting them all unreservedly." - The Perfect Crime

"This is because politics and sociology are themselves faced with their own destitution." - The Perfect Crime

"Now, this has been stolen from us by a world grown indifferent, as the extravagance of thought has been stolen from us by an extravagant world." - The Perfect Crime

"Yes, but up until now all environmental mutations derived from an irreversible tendency towards a formal abstraction of elements and functions, to their homogenization into a single process, as well as to the displacement of gestural behaviors: of bodies, of effor..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"This convergence defines a societyours-in which there is no longer any difference between the economic and the political, because the same language reigns in both, from one end to the other; a society therefore where the political economy, literally speaking, is final..." - Simulacra and Simulation

"In the first case, the image is a good appearance - representation is of the sacramental order." - Simulacra and Simulation

"And non-observance does not lead to a state of transgression; it brings one back under the jurisdiction of the law." - Seduction

"The body as a stage, the landscape as a stage, and time as a stage are slowly disappearing." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Everyone ends up preferring to be `just anyone', at the Lottery's whim; ends up preferring to have an accidental destiny rather than a personal existence." - The Perfect Crime