By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

The film industry gives you the opportunity to meet interesting people.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.]

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah).