'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

Making bad decisions is a part of life. Blaming others for your bad decisions is immature.

I believe in unlimited possibilities.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I'm well trained. The only reason I am this slim is that I have to fit into the clothes. The samples are size 8, and I am naturally a size 10 to 12. I have been on a diet for my entire life.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

If you want to see what I'll look like as an old guy, check out any recent photo of me.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.