If the crowd is full of assholes, it's no fun. If the crowd is cool, it's great.

Bill Cosby spoke out against The Simpsons and there was this kind of evangelical, right-wing sect that was against The Simpsons. Fox was a new network at the time, though, so they were going to take risks.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

When I'm watching South Park I don't think it's written by neo-Nazis. They know exactly what they're doing.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

I think part of it is the fact that they were kind of the first of its kind - there weren't a lot of cartoons for adults. People forget at the time that The Simpsons started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said "hell" and "damn" in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.