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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sacrifice everything that is yours, to call up the humans in others.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

It must be this rhapsody or none, The rhapsody of things as they are.