Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people.

There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

We don't need more stupid ideas.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Living well is an art that can be developed.

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.