I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

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.