I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.

MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.

I do see the world in pretty dark terms. I find it colder and scarier the older I get.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody’s contribution is important.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

You can cheat in solitaire, but there's nothing satisfying about cheating in solitaire.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.

It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I like to get things going. I get so many different ideas, whether it's film, TV, whatever.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

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