I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, "Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh."

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.

Love is cure, love is power, love is magicof changes, love is the mirror of divine beauty

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

What am I doing here in this endless winter?

A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Gardening is all about optimism.

Wax myrtle: The birds love this stuff.

I'm not a hater, I'm not one of those people. I do think it's dope when people get recognized for whatever it is that they do, so more power to everybody who got nominated.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.

Love is the absence of Anxiety.