18 Quotes by Cintra Wilson

Look deep into your heart, Gentle Reader. Deep, deep, deep; past your desire for true love, for inexhaustible riches or uncontested sexual championship, for the ability to fight crime and restore peace to a weary world. Underneath all this, if you are a true, red-blooded American, you’ll find the throbbing desire to be famous.

We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP – an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It’s yucky, and it’s only making you miserable, so stop.

I’m always looking for evidence to support my conjecture that celebrity in Hollywood is sort of like a Joel Peter Witkin photograph: It looks like a big lush banquet table filled with abundance and cornucopias, and then if you look at it closer you see that all the fruit is made of wax and that entree in the middle of the table is actually a dead baby.

If Jesus is on Tim Curran’s side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?

I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

I figure that if there’s a heaven, then there’s a room in heaven where you can look over all of history and be anyone you want to be, at a peak moment in their lives. For example, I always say I would choose to be one of Stevie Wonder’s backup singers on the “Innervisions” album.

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. – Alex Carey, social scientist.

Trump revealed his powerful secret to conquering financial adversity once, in a meeting to promote another one of his signature, view-eating housing developments: “You know,” he said, “what New York really needs – besides this project – is to reduce its debt. And let me tell you – this is something I know – it’s easy! You just don’t pay!” America.