Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Are we just pretending to be unhappy so that we can add drama to our lives, so that we seem more substantial?

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

You can't rewrite nothing, but you can rewrite 90 pages of sh*t. Now you've got your sh*t on the page, you can go work.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

We started tearing down the seniority system on Capitol Hill. All of that begins in the '70s. It accelerates and continues in the '90s, and it's going on to this day.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.