Life is improvisation.

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.

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.

Green exercise improves psychological health.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?