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

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

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".

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.