The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

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.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.