“I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you’re dating or seeing have something special and it’s a more special occasion.”

For me personally, I’m mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I’m inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it’s better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they’re right to some extent, in that the shows they’re putting out are all the same.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

If you always have a crutch, you don’t learn anything.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character.

Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.

It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.