Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of comedy, where sometimes it really flows.

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.

Difficult roads always end up in beautiful DESTINATION.

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

Most people fail in the process of manifesting money or the things they truly desire when they rush to take action without aligning themselves to whatever it is they desire.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.