In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

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.

Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse – and the writer’s.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.

In the end....everything matters.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.