I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its 'factors' but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life

...the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.

I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.

That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man's reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.

...in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.

Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance

For Genet, Beauty will be the offensive weapon that will enable him to beat the just on their own ground: that of value.

Virtue is the death of conscience because it is the habit of Good, and yet the ethic of the honest man infinitely prefers virtue to the noblest agonies of conscience. Thus, being poses nonbeing and eliminates it. There is only being.

...the prisoner's dreams is the guard's spirituality.

The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it.