I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.