The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

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

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

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 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.

This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?