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If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

It is difficult not to write satire.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.