“I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.”

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

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

“There are times inlife when the question of knowing if one can think differentlythan one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, isabsolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflectingat all.”

“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence and has only recently relaxed its hold somewhat, allowing us to question it perhaps, but always in the context of and through its repression? In reality, this question, so often repeated nowadays, is but the recent form of a considerable affirmation and a secular prescription: there is where the truth is; go see if you can uncover it. [...] It is reasonable therefore to ask first of all: What is this injunction? Why this great chase after the truth of sex, the truth in sex?”

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

“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.”