Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

I was managing editor for a while [in National Lampoon ], and it does cause business problems when your circulation goes up.

It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

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.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.