Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

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.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of food when the fields are bare.

I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry

Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us....

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.