Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

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.

There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.