I would never call myself cultural elite, but you might be cultural elite.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Erith, " he said and bowed his head. Her blue-black hair hung to her hips in soft waves.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.

Midlife is not the time to disenchant ourselves. It's a time to turn on all our magic in full force.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.