If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

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.

It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.

I like stepping into the future. Therefore, I look for doorknobs.

Every new situation requires new strategy.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Does anyone remember laughter?

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.