I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

I'm a rather decisive type.

Any trade that is voluntarily made is mutually beneficial, by definition, and, indeed, is balanced, by definition.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.