I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

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

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

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

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

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.