“Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.”

“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”

“Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work?”

“I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.”

“I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963.”

“I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.”

“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”

“If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.”

“If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.”

“I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.”

“I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.”

“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”

“I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.”

“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.”

“Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.”

“McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.”

“More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.”

“Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.”

“President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.”

“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”

“The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.”

“There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.”

“We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.”

“Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?”

“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.”