Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

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.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

I think it's always best to be who you are.

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.