One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

It always stings a little bit when somebody doesn't like what you put out there, or at least it does for me. I don't take it too much to heart, and it doesn't change anything.

I can never remember the name of anywhere I've ever been. I will say that I've eaten at a ton of GREAT places. I just don't remember their names. I'm not that guy.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

When you have a clear idea of what your character is trying to accomplish, it makes it a lot easier to riff on things.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Some people call me the unofficial mayor of Castro Street.

I'll be a little bummed out if I make it to my 70s and didn't have a kid. I have two dogs and I know how much I love them. I would like to love and raise a kid.

The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

O Beloved, where is the Beloved?

A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.