Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think.

A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.

Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.

Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.

I always find heroes who are just like me, I forget they’re only human, and like me, broken

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.