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

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed in reality and fall under a regime of truth dividing the true and the false.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

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.

Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

The soul is the prison of the body.