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.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

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

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.

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

In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves