God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.