I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].

At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.

I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.