Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so expensive. Drugs are too chancy. You might miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time.

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

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

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

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through.