The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

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.

Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly.

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.

Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.