If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

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.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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.

I don’t see how anyone can find happiness in this world.

We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?