Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

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.

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

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.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!