Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

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.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

If your sleight of hand causes you to break eye contact with your audience, it is too advanced for your skill level.

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.