But there are so many from this interview that I couldn’t choose just one
Q: What makes you depressed?
A: Seeing stupid people happy.
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Q: What is the worst job you’ve done?
A: Teaching. I hate students, they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.
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Q: What has been your biggest disappointment?
A: What Alain Badiou calls the “obscure disaster” of the 20th Century: The catastrophic failure of communism.
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Q: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
A: That life is a stupid, meaningless thing that has nothing to teach you.
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Q: Tell us a secret.
A: Communism will win.
Rosanna Greenstreet interviewing Professor Slavoj Zizek in The Guardian
What a bright chipper fellow he is.
Glad I was never one of his pupils.