They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

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

I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

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