Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

Teaching is performance art.

So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.