The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

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.