What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

We have the riots we deserve.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.