I like the fact that they still run substantive pieces. I'm not sure I like the pieces, but it's nice that they do that. Anyway, it was always sort of ridiculous, me having anything to do with the youth culture, but now that I'm in my 50s, it's extra-double-ridiculous. They were losing interest in me, and I was losing interest in them. When I went to renegotiate my contract at Rolling Stone, I kind of halfheartedly asked if I could do half the work for half the money, and they asked if I could do two-thirds of the work for half the money. I ran that by my agent, since he can do math.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.