I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

In some ways, what I need is a wife.

The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

The dreamer and his dream are the same...the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new president of the United States - and to the people of America, who are free.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.