"I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist."

-- Michel Foucault

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“And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.”
“Finding another way to do what I know I can do pretty well. A way that stimulates me. I'm always on some sort of learning curve. If I can continually be surprised then I'm alert.”
“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”
“The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

Source : "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.
“The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.”
“And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.”
“Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.”

Source : Diane Di Prima (2014). “The Poetry Deal”, p.2, City Lights Publishers

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