Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.