Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

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.

Are you willing to forgo your salvation for a cause which seems righteous?

I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries, Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends.

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.

It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you are!

We lose the fear of making decisions great and small as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can if we will learn from the experience.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.