Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

We still make love to organs and not people; that so far from realising that people are never more idiosyncratic, never more totally there when they make love, we re never more incommunicative, never more alone.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

I believe in permanent revolution.