Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

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.

You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.

Here is a piece of advice. Never pay attention to what a man says when he comes. Anything might be blurted out at that moment, and it rarely means anything.

Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true.

Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written plenty that falters on the page but soars in song.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits.

Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.