"The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents."
"The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet."
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Source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. April 6, 2011.
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