The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.

You are worthy of your wildest dreams.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I just really want to be able to walk into a karaoke bar when I'm like 50 years old, do my own song, and then walk out. I think that would be really fun.

The best defense against a powerful and positive dynamic ideology is neither verbal attack nor criticism, which are useful, but to set up an equally powerful and dynamic ideology against it.

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...