How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

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.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.