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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

Peace is not a state - it is a choice, and you have to remake it every day. It's possible to get a sort of stability, a habit of peace, but it's like an egg balanced, spinning, on its point: lose your momentum, and your equilibrium is gone, too.

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.