If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this?

Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist

(...) I'm not much of anything, (...) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ...?

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

People's lives are already cut out for them, and it's decided whether they will be successful or not.

This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.