I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

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.

Intelligent men never do a business

He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.

She is deranged, but so so playful.

All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has.

No talking. Talking doesn't play football, talking isn't going to make you practice harder or play harder.

I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.