The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

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

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard purebred evil and is easily recognized even by moral neophytes. Other malignities-drugs in America, famine in Africa and everything in the Middle East-are more complex. When combating those evils people sometimes have trouble deciding whom to shoot.

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

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.