I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

It's hard for me to shut off my writer brain completely.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

There were times that I would be drunk and just leave a place by myself because I had an impulse and wasn't thinking through the repercussions on others.

It's fun to play someone who seems evil and to reveal their vulnerabilities.

Overcome darkness, so that you may walk in the light.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

Animals for the most part just need to be left alone.