I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

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.

Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The term 'working mother' is redundant.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Hallows, not Horcruxes.

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.