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.

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.

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.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.

For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

All that is not given is lost.

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.