We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

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.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper warnings.

You cannot drink the nectar of love without bleeding for its thorns.

Neat not gaudy.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.