Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

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.

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.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Stagnation is death. With love, accept and welcome changes.

But the book! The siren song of the book!

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

I can't palm a basketball.

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

Horses are like giant possums that you can ride and they stare at you and have terrifying boners

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

It was really fun [on set of the Pineapple Express]. I mean, how could I not have fun? It was exactly what you think it would be.

I believe that a sportsman should be aggressive because that is what gives him or her the power to perform even in the toughest of situations.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.