Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

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.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

I deny that there's such a thing as a gay person. I deny there's such a thing as a heterosexual person.