In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

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.

It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.

To date a girl for her look is like eating a bird for it song

Knowledge is of two kinds we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.