Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

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.

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

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

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.