Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

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.

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!

When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.