Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

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.

Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

A goal without a plan is a wish.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

If I had to pick between Heaven and Hell, I'd pick Hell, because I can't keep white clean.