I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

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.

God gave you the capacity to invent, work, create and to be brilliant.

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

The most importantcommitment you will ever makeis to being the best you can be.

Every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

This is what we’ve been waiting for, this is the cyberchryst moment. This is when the activists that have been pushing against the FED are going to win.