I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.