A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Riley was... a really good kisser

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!

Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!

Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears.

I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin