It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

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.

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

Happy indeed are the arahants! No craving can be found in them. Cut off is the conceit 'I am,' Burst asunder is delusion's net.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.

Nobody wanted the "Roseanne" show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat woman and her family.

Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.