'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.