What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

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.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

Whoever embarks with women embarks with a storm; but they are themselves the safety boats.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.