I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

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.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

My heart certainly goes out to a lot of the - you know, the people who are going to lose their jobs.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Whatever begins, also ends.