Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.

It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season.