I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place.Luca.

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

A man's rivals tell you how great he is.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

Accessible design is good design.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be.