In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Naturally the U.S. trails in gold medals because every time we win one, we hand it over to the Chinese to pay off our debt.

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'

Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.

As Shakespeare said, there's nothin' cooler than droppin' the 'g's off of gerunds!

I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

If I thought I knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be worth doing. The challenge is how joyfully, with what sense of fun and adventure and playfulness, we will greet it. We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river.