There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

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.

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

Weak people never put an end to things themselves. They always wait for the end.

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.