When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.

You know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

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.

The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that's part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)