You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

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.

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have “misplaced” their values.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

Demi Moore is a terrific woman and a hell of an actress.

I'm going to crush my competition and I'm going to enjoy doing it.

Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.