We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

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.

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.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The weaker you are the louder you bark.-Tenten

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show bubbled up and it was the right time for it.

No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

A crafty knave needs no broker.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

Heaven is where you'll be when you are okay right where you are.