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

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

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

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

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.

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?

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