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

If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.