Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

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.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

Each one of us is selfish, including me.

Set your strong intention, work hard, and pray, slowly but surely, what you strive for will come to be. This is God’s law.” -127

The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia. I think it's the thing we do best.

It is impossible to attain proper physical condition without being sound both mentally and morally.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.