I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

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.

Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Anger is not an accepted thing for women. And, you know, I do get angry. I feel its a very honest emotion.

I started skateboarding at around age 10, and enjoyed the artistic aspect of it as much as the sporting aspect, so for me it was more of an art form and a lifestyle.

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.