Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.

For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

While I think the earth is warming, I don't think that man-made causes are the primary factor.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Animation is manipulating the difference.