Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

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

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.