There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.