Consumption is a social relationship, the dominant relationship in our society-one that makes it harder and harder for people to hold together, to create community.

It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

The press always wants to know how many people will be killed or how much it will cost, but the answers to those questions are not knowable.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

What do you do when you’re living in a hut for $500 a month and subsisting on Boston Market and Subway? You just keep doing what you’re doing.