Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

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.

The werewolf by the moon. The wererat by money. (Loup garou par la lune. - Rat garou par les thunes.)

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.

You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting.

The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

Everybody counts or nobody counts

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.