[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

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.

I happen to be a fantastic kisser. Sadly, you will never get to find out.”“Never say never, ” he answers in a singsong voice.“Thanks for that, Justin Bieber. But yeah, not going to happen, dude.

Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.

How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.