Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

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.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.