In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.

I'm 61 years old. I'm not that fearful of the future, period. I'm not going to see that much of it.

The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion - very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.