Jean Baudrillard

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."

"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment."

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

"There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world."

"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."