The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

There are never any rules, rights, or wrongs in imagining--- imagining just is.

Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

Love means having something to betray.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.