Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too

It’s been a tsunami of media and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

You know, I could run for governor and all this but I’m basically a media creation.  I’ve never really done anything.  I’ve worked for my dad.  I worked in the oil industry.  But that’s not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.