There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours

I thought Black Friday was when everyone puts on blackface and steals children from Wal-Mart.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.