History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

There are different versions of Islam... it is meaningless to claim to speak in the name of a ‘real’ Islam.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Desperation is the result of globalization.

Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.

He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.

They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

After the kids are asleep you... well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.

When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.

I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

I'd have described myself as a Tolkien reader before this, but now I'd describe myself as a Tolkien geek.