A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

Images exist; things themselves are images... Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

Cherish all your happy moments they make a fine cushion for old age.

I like to think that I've got determination, and I'm fiercely protective of the people I love.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.