You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

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.

Don’t stop breathing just because night has fallen! Don't stop breathing just because you are sleeping

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me.

Cupcake , you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.