It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.