The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew – he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

There is an initial modesty in Liberalism. Liberalism was not originally a doctrine of "man is the king." No, it was a very modest attempt to build a space where people could live together without slaughtering one another.