Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
My business is the analytical framework.
I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
The government never does anything successfully.
I had to do something for the country.
The principal cause of war is war itself.
I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.
If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.
I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.
The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.