What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.