If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.