What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Reality tastes like ashes

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

I first learnt to program a computer when I was nine, when my dad got a ZX80, but I think I would have had to be a particularly perspicacious child to have foreseen the iPad or Twitter!