Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

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.

Power changes its appearance but not its reality.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier

There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.