I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration. He paved the way.

I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.