"In the end, we are all stories, told and retold, until we become part of the collective memory."

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

文化产业与其说是适应顾客的反应，不如说是在调整他们。

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.