Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!