Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The only problem is time.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I'm the guy in the crowd making fun of the hero's shirt.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about.

Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.