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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

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I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

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I'm really tired of virtue.

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There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

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I'm a political conservative.

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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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