My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

To punish is the most difficult thing there is. A society such as ours needs to question every aspect of punishment as it is practiced everywhere: in the army, the schools, the factories.

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

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

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.