The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

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.

To change your life, you need to become aware of yourself

...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.

Don't condemn what you can't comprehend

It is in doing that we could learn more about our strengths and weaknesses, and then be presented with the opportunities to work our way up from there.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

I mean you last as long as lies.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.