The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.

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.

When you share my heart. You share my love.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

I have actual acting scars.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.