I was a Political Science major.

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 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.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

Maybe they should go back to wooden sticks.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.