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

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.

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.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.

Take some advice from an old farmer. You’re in business now. Take the money. You’d be amazed at how many don’t want to pay.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

I came to Nantes two-years-ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.