Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Every episode has a purpose to move the story forward.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

You've got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you've got to believe that God has a reason for it and he's going to make everything good.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.