I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

When Nixon died, on my radio show I started doing sketches with three basic conceits: One, there's a place called Heaven. Two, Nixon got in. And three, he's still taping.

I couldn't help but be struck that this guy I had thought was the embodiment of everything wrong with American politics, a lot of his domestic policy was mind-numbingly, head-spinningly to the left of Obama's. It was under Nixon that the EPA was created. It was under Nixon that OSHA was created. Under Nixon that the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts were passed.

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.