It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

Wrestling is realer than reality TV.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

God is more lasting than the white man.

Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.