These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

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.

Don’t worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

Lawyers with a weakness for seeing the merits of the other side end up being employed by neither.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.