As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

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.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.