Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

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.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.