Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

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.

This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

...Everyone struggles to guard their heart from breaking, when they should desire to have a heart that breaks...

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.