What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.