We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

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.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

Be brave, be bold, be free.

But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.

All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.