It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Entrepreneur, make today count and but don't let the day count you.

No one ever tells you that: that there’s no method. Writing’s a lawless place.

As the Great Magician says, there will always be trouble in the world. That’s why I say, there will always be a time for heroes.

There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing.

I try to work out more now. I have been really thinking about getting into yoga, though. I can use that, believe it.

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