John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

I’ll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on the inside, and she’d written “Have fun.” That always stayed with me.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Mom somehow made it to every one of my graduations - even when it meant she had to travel far away.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

The reality is that life, for all of us, is pretty stressful and we all need ways to cope.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

We got to open for Soundgarden, which was pretty cool.