The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!

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.

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

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