I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . . The conflict is between great powers, not between demons and heroes. Unhappily, therefore, is the nation that finds the "heroes" underfoot, especially if they still think in religious terms and involve the population in their bloody ascent to an uninhabited paradise.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.