There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.
Never fight an inanimate object.
The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
