Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.

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.

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence.

Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

You can grow apart from people very quickly.

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.