Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

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.

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.

Hope is a tree of Life.

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.

It's important for me to give each thing the possibility to speak and also to allow artworks speak to each other.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.