A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

I'm the kind of person that if I'm not getting something that I need from somewhere. I don't cry about it, I'm like OK I'm going to go here and find what I need.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself-I know I am myself-but I am also someone else. It has always been like this.

My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.