Having no talent is no longer enough.

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.

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I really like deep house.