It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.