If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

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.

I am made of beauty. I notice beauty all around me every day. I am beautifully blessed!

You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!

I will be successful. May be not right away, but some day for sure.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore.

People don’t care enough. They don’t get worked up enough. They don’t get angry enough. They don’t get passionate enough. I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build