How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

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.

Everyone is a little crazy. The only difference between us and them is that they hide it better.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.

I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

The early worm deserves the bird.

If you're not scared a lot you're not doing very much.