The American vice is explanation.

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.

Falling in love is not the problem

The chief significance of life is to find your soul.

Rejection is no badge of honour.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.