Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

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.

Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen!” he boomed.

He fought his inner wuss and groaned, “Fine. Bait me up and show me the hook.

I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.