“The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.”

“I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.”

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”

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

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”

“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”