The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

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.

I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is meI believe in my dance-- And my destiny

I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

We are here to love. Not much else matters.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.