I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

Funny women are honest women.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Will I see you again?”I turned to him and I shrugged. “If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

I truly believe that [America loves] the people that don't play to the audience and are just themselves.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.