For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

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

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

We have the riots we deserve.