At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

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.

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

How will a President Trump bind those wounds rubbed so raw by this campaign?

Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyway, because I was a huge George Carlin fan.

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.