Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

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.

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.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

You are a new creation by the blood of Jesus.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

Without love no life left on earth.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

Something is cool until everyone thinks it's cool.