Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

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

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of homosexuality does not date back to Christianity properly speaking, but developed within the Christian era at a much later date. In this type of analysis it is important to be aware of the way in which people conceived of their own sexuality.

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.