My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.