The more you know, the more you can make fun of

If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.

Where do the really best laughs come from? Terrific connections made intellectually, or terrific revelations made emotionally.

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.

The absolute worst thing you can do in a scene is be apathetic.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

Every interpersonal situation has a solution in which everyone wins.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

Compassion is the way you live your life every day.

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.