The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

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.

Why do you want to fight and win when you were born to understand and forgive? When you forgive, you always win.

Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Intuition is what you know before you think.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

My hope is Donald Trump will take a longer view and a more unified approach.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.