Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.

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.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.