I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon.

You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.

Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.

Why ruin a good story with the truth?