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.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!