The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

I can tell you about health care and also about the financial reform bill. The Barack Obama, the President personally and his administration officials at his direction were very much involved.

Having a live audience makes a world of difference to the acting. It keeps your timing sharp. When something doesn't work, the actor can sense the reaction from the audience and quickly move on.

I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.