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

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

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

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

All societies end up wearing masks.