 At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. |
| It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. |
| We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. |
| If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. |
| It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. |
| Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. |
| A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. |
| There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. |
| You are born modern, you do not become so. |
| Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. |
| Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. |
| There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. |
| 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. |
| The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. |
| Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. |
| At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. |
| To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. |
| What is a society without a heroic dimension? |
| The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. |
| Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario. |
