I've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.

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.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

If you are not able to find peace within yourself, no one will be able to bring you peace.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

The results will be very good.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.