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

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

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

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.

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.