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.

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.

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.

When was the last time you spent the entire day with only 42 year olds?

I don't know what the future holds.

We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.

I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

I like to take advantage of the simple-minded because I can.

Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.