In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

There's not enough bad taste! I LOVE bad taste! I live for bad taste! I am the spokesman for bad taste!

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.