Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it.