As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)