France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

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

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

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

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

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

In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.