... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.

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

Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts, and, on the other hand, of permissive or restrictive laws which tell us what we should or shouldn't do. Sexual behavior is more than that.

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

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

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

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?