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 will not subject my wife, family or friends to the sadistic vitriol of yellow journalism. I will not dignify such journalism with a reply or an answer. I never will.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.