Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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.

The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.

Be happy and enjoy your sacred time on earth.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.'

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.