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.

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.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

I love The Matrix, especially the first one.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.

I am a New Yorker. I like New York. And I like cities. And it's not my desire to make New York more suburban. I would personally just like to vet each person.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt.