I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also.

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

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

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.