All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

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.

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is

[In 2011] What Steve Jobs did was simply make everything and everyone better.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket.