The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

A positive attitude turns "I can't & I won't, " into "I have & I WILL!

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Being funny is not the same as being happy.

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Dressing well is a form of good manners.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food