Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

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

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

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

I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.

The gaze that sees is the gaze that dominates.

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.