Zygmunt Bauman

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

I've been trying really hard to be more domesticated. It's not in my nature to clean and cook, and so I've been really good about it.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.