To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.

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.

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.

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

Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

I sprung you because I've got a message for you" "doesn't your family own a cell phone company?" "only a little one

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.