Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

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.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.

Nobody's ever decided what success is, out here.

Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

If your husband wants to lick the beaters on the mixer, shut them off before you give them to him.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul!