And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

Politicians are wonderful people as longa as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death... This was Tina Brown.But they paid me for it. So I've got this big chunk of a piece, and Rolling Stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. But then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. That was fun.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.