Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

And, by the way, how come all the people who were so in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament are so opposed to unilateral protection against nukes?

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.