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?"

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

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.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.