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

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

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am - a person who doesn't much like big government - is that I do not like the concentration of the power.

A lot of things work better in a locomotive.