Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.

If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.

The combat [with ISIS] on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.