We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

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.

The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

I like Bloomingdales, and I like a store called Scoop.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

You have to feel love to harness its power!

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.