A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

Don't move your money from Bear. That's just being silly. Don't be silly.

What keeps me going is goals.

Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.