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

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

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

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.

The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.