There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Oh, I told Once, and I told you Twice, Stay here With me In my Paradise I need you I miss you More and more Each day

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.

The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know