“The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end.”

“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. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”

“People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.”

“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”

“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”

“Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.”