Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.

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.

Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.

There's people that like you and there's people that don't like you. I love it because I love the negative criticism because I always feel I have something to prove.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.