[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

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.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain, " He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us.

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.