I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

In some ways, what I need is a wife.

The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.

Be peaceful like a mountain. Be loving like a flower. Be wonderous like thunder.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.