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.

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

Ask me, "Why would you travel on the difficult path?". Because, I trust God to walk me through the unknown journey.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Every journey begins with a single step.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.