I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.