I don't live the single life and never really did.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

It's not that often that you get to have a large commercial success and then have something that you want to do that you can excite people about.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

You never know what's coming for you.

Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.