Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

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

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

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.

Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.