Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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 my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.