In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...].

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

And I can see Russia from my house.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.

A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.

Time is the best kept secret of the rich.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.