That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

I figured in the modern world, considering, Jesus himself would have likely been born in a frat house.

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil

Love, honor, and negotiate.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.