To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

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.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

The infinite bears no definition

With positive mindset you can graciously overcome any circumstance.

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.