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 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.

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

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.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

There will always be an underground.

Hope is a thing with feathers

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

When you write a song, a song has longevity

Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.