The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.