During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

I have no particular career agenda.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.