I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.