I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?