What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

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 day you subscribe to being loved by everyone is the day you stop growing.

Never waste any moment of your life seeking approval or acceptance from people. They are not your creator.

Entrepreneur, you have to be known for something, not anything, but something specific, why? That's your distinction.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

You are the world and the world is you.

I can't figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can't tell who is saying something and who's replying to something. I don't know who the tweeter is and who's responding to the twit.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.