It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.