Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

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.

Stop walking through life with things or people that are capable of slowing you down.

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

Recognize winners. They come in all forms.

Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles.

We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.