The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

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.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

The world is “sick” with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it

Learning to have the confidence to grab the opportunity when it presents itself makes you a winner.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

Wyatt didn't want it, but without his permission, his heart started beating again. It had always beat for Tabitha.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

I've tried wearing more than one ring on one hand and it doesn't look good. It's overkill, I think. So I think a ring on either hand. Nine times out of ten I'll go for pinky rings, but not always.