"I mean, how can you have a country that is the world's leading exporter of democracy and then say that we can't have a free press?"

"I often feel like I'm a detective, trying to uncover the truth about people."

"I always try to find the humanity in my characters, even the most outrageous ones."

"I think it's important to laugh at ourselves, and at the world. Otherwise, we'd all go mad."

"I like to think of myself as a comedic anthropologist."