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.

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to very general and universal categories and formal structures. But thought is something other than societal relations.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Visibility is a trap.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.