All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

Cars would be safer on rails!