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.

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

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.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent, " Sazed said quietly.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

Reviling a Muslim is disobedience to God, and fighting with him is infidelity.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.