Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.