Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

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.

If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.

If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn't be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.