I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

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.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

No matter what anybody says, we can't have it all. Not if you are a woman. Not yet.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.

Knowledge is the currency of the universe.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait.

This woman [Hillary Clinton] has been in public, has been a nationally known figure for over 30 years. Why does anybody have to tell us who she is? And why does she need to be "humanized"?

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.