Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

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 solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.

It takes only an apostrophe to make the word impossible possible according to the word itself

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

Finally, we see that there is no one and nothing but God.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.