The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .

Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

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

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.