Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

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.

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Brabling Curres never want torne eares.

I had the metabolism of a hummingbird on crack.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

A man walks into a bar, and he said OUCH, cause it was an iron bar.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.