Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.

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.

Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree!

It's like visual is super important to me. So if I am writing a song, like, I have to have the title.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.