There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.