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.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

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

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

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.