Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

If you are dissatisfied with what you have, Then you will never be satisfied with what you have.

You should always do more of what you believe is right, even if you are trembling inside.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

We can be anybody we wanna be.

My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.