My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.