Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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.

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Getting rich is not real and staying rich is real.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to it.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

I made friends during my presidency.

A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.