For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures.

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

I was a Political Science major.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

Being silent in the right moment is a skill.

With Dan you have to listen to his underneath, you know? Not so much what he says.

If you do not sow into God, you cannot expect a financial harvest.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.