Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.

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.

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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.