What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

We as authors sign a pact with our readers they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised.

Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two day break from it.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.

To be a man you've gotta beat the man.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.