It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

God needs your obedience

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.