After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of mediocrity, which can easily master enough of the star techniques to produce inoffensive personalities and enough of the rational vocabulary to create the sounds of competence.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.