If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

When people say 'I'm not a prude, but ...' what they mean is 'I am a prude, and ...'.

years ago we would have been burned for this. Now what I am suggesting is that we've advanced.

...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

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.