The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

All the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!" "Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.

And what’s he then that says I play the villain?