“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).”

“However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context (“The Apparition” by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?”

“Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.”

“Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist”

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. Marquis de Sade”

“Nous sommes nés en des temps de chaos, où chacun a l'esprit confus. On voudrait rester à l'écart de ce monde de fous, mais ce serait refuser sa part de butin.”

“Un pauvre et banal philosophe qui portait une culotte de femme et un jogging vert pomme, débitait de pauvres pensées, usées comme de vieilles casseroles lasses de cuire toujours les mêmes soupes.”