When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.

The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think.

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less.

People get way too much credit at funerals.

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot."

I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.

I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.

It's easier done than said!

all we see today in name of love it not that lust is sold in name of love

The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

Execution is the chariot of genius.