Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Culture makes all men gentle.

Really, what the government is asking Apple to do is to make every individual who uses an iPhone susceptible to hacking by bad people, foreign governments, and anyone who wants.

The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

Looking at 70 from 49, I don't see it slowing me down. Maybe I'll need a nap during the day! I'm thinking when I'm 85 I'll settle down a bit. But I'm going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

If we remain grotesquely unequal we shall lose all sense of fraternity and fraternity for all its fatuity as a political objective turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Mans main task in life is to give birth to himself to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater.