« 2001, in train stations and airports, Relais H (for Hachette, house created in 1852) became Relay, a mutation that did not affect clinics and hospitals. French spelling is maintained for the dying and disabled. »

« A desirable way of life must not be to repress, but to print and invent. Stakhanov was not Bill Gates. To be able to hurt, but first to do good. In short, supremacy is established when the footprint survives the right-of-way, and the hold to the empire. »

« At what point situate the change in the cultural climate: the transition from social to societal, from who is right to what is called modern, from equality to equity, from the momentum of solidarity to humanitarian crime, from culture for all to culture for everyone, from the fraternal to the compassionate, from "changing life" to "changing the canteen"? When did the prolo become Cabu's beauf, The militant, supporter; the current of thought, stable; Class, network; And the bobo, compass? When did the raout address slip from the Steelworkers' House to the Latin American House and the pilgrimage site of Latché to Marrakech? I simply note that the global warming of the Earth's atmosphere has corresponded to sea level a clear cooling of civic passions" (pg 17) »