It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

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

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

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.