We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.
The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.
'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.
I love things that have a vintage feel to them, just because there's a certain texture to them that we just don't have anymore. In fact I think I've been stuck in the 50s or 60s for a while.
The primary wisdom is intuition.
I don't like to sit around whining about the corporate media, how they control everything, own everything. We already know that.
Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.