For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

Let us be the flowers of love and let us spread the beauty of happiness.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Life is too short to major the MINOR and MINOR the major. Make the main thing the main thing and the world will make you the MAIN man

My son, do not forget your father's instructions.

Sorry I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.