“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

A woman wields power to build a home or destroy a home.

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana.

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.