Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

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