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

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.

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

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.