Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

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.