Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime.

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."

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.