I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

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.

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

I'm not a spiteful man, never been. I always forgive. The final decision isn't mine, but God's. God knows what He does.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.