So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.

He is a sweet boy, quick to laugh, easy to love.

Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.