Madness designates the equinox between the vanity of night's hallucinations and the non-being of light's judgments.

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.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

Life is a gracious gift.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.