I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.