Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

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