There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

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.

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.