Los Angeles is many places in one place.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

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.

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry.