Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

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.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

We forget that God's primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.