Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

To the militant, identity is everything.