Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimateart.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Learn how to let go and say a good good-bye.

What I love is finding immersive jobs. I've always wanted a challenge.

When you get the hang of this, before you know it you will KNOW you are the creator.

Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.