But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"