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

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

The Western memory museum is now mostly a visual one.

Passion paralyzes good taste.