“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.”

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.

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.

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 get all tangled up, just tango on.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.

Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.

The harder you work, the luckier you get” is true in all things.

I couldn’t wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don’t know what a firestorm is.

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.