I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

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.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Greatness has a fragrance. Get close to it and that fragrance will arouse your potential.

Grief is a form of validation

To be content is to count your blessings.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

What is all this juice and all this joy?

A violin should be played with love, or not at all.

Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.