People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.