Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of inside poop. Which is not something I'd be interested in doing, and anyway, I didn't. I actually knew more people in his dad's administration. So it was obviously winding down at Rolling Stone, and they were having financial troubles, too. They weren't getting the advertising, and the issues were getting thin. They fired Bob Love, who'd been my editor there for a long time.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.