To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one's fellow countrymen.... But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

To be naked is to be oneself.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.