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

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.

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.

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.

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.

All you need is a vision and a little passion to meet success.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.