American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

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.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

There are people who view their feminism in different ways. I used to beat myself up if I didn't react to things like I was supposed to.

Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.