Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

I always believe that the bridge between reality and a dream is work.

Love is growing up.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

I've always been naturally thin.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.