I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

I don't like that The Simpsons are spokespeople for Burger King and MasterCard and Butterfinger. In the first Gulf War, I was really upset that the Simpsons characters were being drawn on tanks and bombs. But those are things that I don't control.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

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

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it. If I had to write ten jokes about potholders, I don't think I could do it. But I could write ten jokes about Catholicism in the next twenty minutes.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.