That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Once I began taking inventory of ALL I was Grateful for, the warehouse I had packed with notebooks listing all I lacked became obsolete.

Whether something is wonderful or horrible, the most harmful thought we can think is “Will this last forever?

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

I dont talk about who Im dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.

There is an original inside me.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

There is another man within me that's angry with me.