What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.