Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

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.

He’d gone too far. He didn’t usually talk to women so frankly. Not with them both fully clothed anyway.

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

I don't believe in right or left; I don't believe in Santa or Satan. I believe in things I can touch - like vodka and Oreos.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

Then, on my way to California, I decided to stop in New York to do some research. I couldn't leave, because that's where the music was!

Celtic is a community institution the supporters are entitled to be proud of.

To really appreciate life you got to know you're going to die.