We are freer than we think.

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.

If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten

As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

The work I enjoy is when the camera rolls, and I like the work in the moment.

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.