I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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.

Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!

True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.

I am the King of biting off more than I can chew.