Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make people quite fearful.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?

Neither compares nor competes. Be creative.

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

no war really comes unexpectedly. The drums are beating long before a single shot is fired.

A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation.

Impossible is just an opinion.

Fortune never helps the fainthearted.