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

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

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

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.