You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?

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.

I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things.

So many things we love are you!

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

Some of you had big dreams, but you had some disappointments & now you think it’s over. But God is saying, Begin again.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.