On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I look into my own black heart.

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.