I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.

The Left is my family. And it is threatened by terrible demons, like differentialism. "differentialist Left" are people who have learned nothing about tolerance. Or justice. People who, hiding behind a backward sense of tolerance and justice, explain to us that we must accept all the actions of all civilizations, including the stoning of adulterous wives or the mutilation of little girls.

Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.