“Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.”

“Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity that is their strength...It does not entail the transmission of something from those who have to those who do not, but rather the setting in motion of a chain of unforeseen accesses.”

“Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.”

“Rien n'est vrai comme ce qu'on sent.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“I foresee death by culture shock.”

“The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.”