I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

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.

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

My God, I'm so in love with my boyfriend.

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

There can be miracles when you believe.