“What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.”

Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

They don’t want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever.

they’ve got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don’t have to pay attention to what’s going on in the world around them.

Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat.

These kids don’t know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it.

It was also the root cause of EC’s success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.

The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, “Mad takes on both sides.”

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.

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.

The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books.

They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency.

Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am really upset about that. I feel that they are burying their heads in the sand of electronic games and television.

If you’d done a good job you’d just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.

If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

California, here I come, right back where I started from.

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step.

I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat – these ladies are all business – she goes.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.

I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there’s a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they’re in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him ‘then bring me a winner.’

On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I’m back