Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet..

I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclea….

One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling..

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present..

A lot of things work better in a locomotive..

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people ….

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe..

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages..

If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic c….

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased..

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory..

I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seducti….

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming..

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening..

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorif….

When [George W.] Bush was elected, I think they thought I would have some sort of special "in" with that administration, to provide some sort of insi….

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they….

We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hun….

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is..

To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze..

A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world ca….