Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

There will never be a nuclear war; there's too much real estate involved.

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport

The bigger the cushion, the better the pushin'.

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.