A good deed never goes unpunished.

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

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.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.