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.

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

If everything were transparent, there would be no ideologies.

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?

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.

I would love to meet with the Black Caucus, it's great, the Congressional Black Caucus, I think it's great.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.