I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.