Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

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 you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

There is nothing like first-hand evidence.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.