Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery.

...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.