Der Spätkapitalismus verspicht Genuss ohne Reue. Alkoholfreies Bier und zuckerfreie Schokolade suggerieren Genuss ohne Nebenwirkungen und Bio-Bananen lassen uns glauben, wir täten beim kau(f)en etwas für die Umwelt.

Die Aufgabe der Psychoanalyse bestand einst darin, den Menschen zu ermöglichen, ihr Begehren gegen eine repressive Gesellschaft zu verteidigen. Heute muss ihre Aufgabe darin bestehen, den Menschen gegen das Gebot, genießen zu müssen, zu verteidigen.

Aus den Boxen der Genuss-Gesellschaft schallen ihre Slogans: „Du darfst“, „Du willst es, du kriegst es!“, „Enjoy the real thing!“, „Du willst es doch auch“, „Have it your way“… #wirmüssennurwollen

Das Versprechen völliger Befriedigung ist eine Illusion, die in dem großen Interesse der Genuss-Gesellschaft am Virtuellen, an Simulationen und Abbildungen aller Art, sichtbar wird. #facebooktinderinstagram

Die Maxime der Genuss-Gesellschaft ist die Unmittelbarkeit, die direkte Verfügbarkeit all dessen, was als Quelle des Genusses dienen könnte. Dementsprechend bekämpft die zeitgenössische Philosophie auch die Metaphysik und begeistert sich für alles Greifbare. #newmaterialism

Die Genuss-Gesellschaft hat die Arbeit abgeschafft: Hackordnungen werden durch flache Hierarchien ersetzt, Arbeitsplätze werden zu Wohlfühloasen und Vorgesetzte zu Kollegen. #MachdeinHobbyzumBeruf

Je mehr man genießen muss, desto weniger kann man genießen. Angesichts grenzenloser Optionen lauert hinter jeder Wahl eine Fehlentscheidung; das Ergebnis ist zwangsläufig Unzufriedenheit.

Schlimm ist, nicht genießen zu können; noch schlimmer ist, wenn der Nachbar es kann. Der Genuss des Anderen wird verdächtig und als Bedrohung wahrgenommen. Daraus resultieren, Neid, Apathie und offene Gewalt.

Die Zyniker, die über den Dingen schweben und von oben die Genuss-Gesellschaft verspotten, ergötzten sich an ihren Höhenflügen und gehen dabei der Genuss-Logik ebenso auf den Leim, wie die armen Teufel, die sie verspotten.

Die Vorstellung völliger Befriedigung ist eine Illusion. Nur wer akzeptiert, dass jeder Genuss sein Ende hat, und sich die Mängel, die er wie alle anderen leidet, eingesteht, kommt in der Realität an und wird genuss- und empathiefähig.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But its 15 years from now.

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

I speak to everyone in the same way whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

All I want to do is work.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.