The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

When you feel nervous, recall your pride.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.