If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

Astrology is not an art, it is a disease.

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.