I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

I like comedy as a group sport.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh!

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.