In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

Visibility is a trap.

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.

My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.