I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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.

In selecting any goal you should focus on the reason – without a compelling reason your resolve will weaken.

You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.

Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

One without health cannot achieve any small thing.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.