Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

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.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.

Mozart is sunshine.

The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it.

The tone of every book is slightly different; there's a music that each has that is distinct from all the others.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.