Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do

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.

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.