I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

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.

How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.

Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.

I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.