One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

God did not die; he was transformed into money

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

The coming being is whatever being.

Are you going to hand your children over to Big Food, Big Med and Big Pharma? That journey begins with the choice to bottle feed, then it's all down hill from there.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable. It's no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it.

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward Carey, Jim Magnuson, and Elizabeth McCracken.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.