“What bothers me about television is that it takes our minds off our minds.”

“It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.”

“The papers exaggerate. They exaggerate everything, just to sell papers. The government exaggerates, to keep our minds off what morons they are.”

“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds…”

“The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.”

“Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.”

“Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.”

“In the age of pseudo‑events it is less the artificial sim­plification than the artificial complication of experience that confuses us. Whenever in the public mind a pseudo‑event competes for attention with a spontaneous event in the same field, the pseudo‑event will tend to dominate. What happens on television will overshadow what happens off television.”

“All that we refer to as being ours – our body, our mind, our emotions – is not what we are, essentially.”

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”