We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.