If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

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.

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.

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.