A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.