History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

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.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

I’d say I was a tomboy... I took wood chop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and [was] very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Life with another person is always difficult.