Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.

If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then I won't touch on God or anything here

But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?