The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

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.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Your spirit must be strong to survive a shock.

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Living based in security is living based in fear.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.