I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

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.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

I wish I had more patience.

There is more power in unity than division.

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.