The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power -even the smallest and silliest kind of power - out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class -the class that knows what's good for us better than we do.

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

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

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time together socially, which is to say "drunk."