Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

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.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Shouting has never made me understand anything.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.