There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

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

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.