« In Ligugé, France (Vienna), the oldest monastery in the West, founded in 363 by St. Martin de Tours, where no birth has ever taken place, live, work and pray in 2003 a few dozen Benedictines, but in Nauvoo, Illinois, or in Dallas, Texas, free reproduction, there is no trace of Icarians. Time, which sifts through everything, has rendered its verdict: religious consistency, utopian inconsistency. The avant-garde according to Bakunin - who dreamed of men "firmly united in a Secret Society and acting everywhere and always with a view to the same purpose and according to the same programme" - the monastic cell came closer than the revolutionary nucleus. Strange. As if the monk had not found a rival to his measure in the communizing, yet great admirer of Thomas More (who had his plaque on the walls of the Kremlin). »

« Monastic life is a social subversion that its excuse introversion. Each party in the presence finds its account to whether it remains wall color: our capitalist society, because if this obscene life were to be a little more staged, it would reveal to us the obscenity of what we hold for decency even (sex, football, noise, money). And the institutes themselves, because, to live holyly, live hidden. Therefore we do not have to put the monks and nuns in prison, for violating good morals, they went there with themselves, and with good heart. »

« The Christian religion is a gigantic pyramid of saints, rites, dogmas, which was built "base in the air", resting on a pinhead: the crucifixion of an obscure thaumaturge, passed on the unnoticed moment of his contemporaries. In Jerusalem, it is like a tragedy with unity of action, place and time. Protagonist: God, place: 2 km2, time: between revelation and the end of time. »