In terms of the emotional underpinning, if you've been in relationships, you understand what's happening.

Don't be a jerk. Try to love everyone. Give more than you take. And do it despite the fact that you only really like about seven out of 500 people.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

In the writing, I'm just trying to go deeper, emotionally, and learn more about myself and reveal more and find a way to connect with people in new ways.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.

I think that everything I do tends to root for the underdog.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

In whose delusional mind is democracy made 'better' by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.