All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.