Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

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.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.

As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

It freshens your breath and helps prevent tartar.

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?