If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.