Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.