Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.

Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.

I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

I don't have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I'm committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.