The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

We'll run this planet as we please, and if you don't like it, go back where we came from.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

Some people are better imagined in one's bed than found there in the morning.

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

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.