I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

The idea you implement is more important than the ideas you collect.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

Those who move forward "with a" happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.