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

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.

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

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!

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

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.