I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

The root system supports the branches.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

Boredom doesn't exist where creativity lives.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Thoughts come and go like leaves in the wind, but the core of consciousness is forever.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.