The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

If you want to know the secret of life, learn with enthusiasm and love with all of your heart.

God’s purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

Ma'am, are you trying to molest me via drivethru?

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

The harp was so much more gestural and physical for me than the piano - something about bringing this instrument into your body.