If we succeeded, we will have the primary satisfaction of ending the war
I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.
For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!
It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.
It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
A musical blast! Fun for the whole nuclear family!
One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.
The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, "Mad takes on both sides. " We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.
I love America. I wanted to play golf.
Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.