You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

What then is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks I do not know.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Though few would admit it, most of the time, when people are upset they don't actually want to feel differently, they want agreement and ways to make a situation, condition, or person change.

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice."

There are more Baptist preachers in Texas than Baptist missionaries in all the world.

America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.