Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.
The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.
Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
