I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.