It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

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.

To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.

Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.