It is not primarily ideas that have a history; it is societies. And then what often seem opposed ideas can in the end be seen as parts of a single social process.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Her love is rare but she'll keep you wild.

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

When you are an athlete, it's difficult to take time off and say you want to come back without everyone judging you and attacking you.

Haste is blind and improvident.

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.