A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The unfed mind devours itself.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

We wanted a name that people would remember and get pissed off about. Nothing too deep, believe me.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.