Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

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.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?

In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.