At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.

There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.