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

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

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.

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.

You'll never understand someone if you can't stop assuming you already know everything about them.

For those who sit on the stairs, a good quote is a strong invitation to stand up and to go up the stairs!

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

Make no apologies for who you are.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.