Everybody is clever, just in their own ways

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

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

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

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.