Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

the media are not the holders of power, but they constitute by and large the space where power is decided.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Reality is just a point of view.

What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a stretch.