You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

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

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.

They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?

Christianity is such a silly religion.

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