There's a lot of things you can't control. But you can always be a pro.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

Outside, the afternoon sun was an orange sliver on an icy horizon.

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift.