In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.