It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
Michel FoucaultI'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
Michel FoucaultI don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
Michel FoucaultMy point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
Michel Foucault[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.
Michel Foucault