Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

Don't let me catch anyone talking about the Universe in my department.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

The life of the soul is incalculable.

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

A lot of people are going around saying, 'You won the Academy Award for such and such.' 'No. I didn't.' 'You didn't?' 'Well, you should have.'

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

I can win those four-chair turns all day.