There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.

Listen, the idea that I might be a fashion soothsayer is very flattering but completely inaccurate.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.